Except that some of these laws are oversteps and overreaches that conflict with other laws and rights.... so, when that is the case, breaking the law is not just legally justified, it is morally justified as well.
"Da law is da law" is the argument that mouth-breathing retards use who have absolutely no critical thinking skills. And yes, that seven letter r-word is the correct one to use in this case.... it might even be KIND to those people.
On the last point, I could bring something up but I won't because my PoV on the subject is very controversial. On the others? Yeah, you hit the nail on the head.
People are looking for too many 'easy outs' for their health issues. You have to get down to the nitty-gritty of exactly what you are trying to fix (overweight, diabetic, etc.) and realize that most likely you will not be able to TOTALLY fix those issues but can lessen them.
Obama should have sent the National Guard and FBI in by this point to put the smackdown on the Ferguson creeps and I do not mean just the rioters.
The police are also out of control in that town and need to be given a wakeup call that "We are a land of laws. Those laws apply to you bastards as much as anyone else. DEAL WITH IT!"
My conservative West Virginia relatives who are racist have been horrified by what is going on in Ferguson.
This. This would not stand on appeal if Frank wanted to be a hardass on this. However, at this point, he is probably becoming weary of the whole damned thing (that is what the prosecutors want, they want to wear someone out so that they will give up and say "I'll plea!") and just wants it to be over at this point.
Hit the nail on the head there. The U.K. and the United States are trying to put jail time on expressing a differing viewpoint from the government on some subjects.
That is totally wrong, the right to free speech should be sacrosanct as should the right to say things that people do not like hearing.
Or talking anywhere period.... which is going to be a non-starter in the real world. The fact is that, contrary to popular belief, most people do not speak any louder into a phone than they do talking to a person beside them.
It will be thrown out by the Supreme Court. These idiots need to realize that banning something just because of a personal dislike for it is UNCONSTITUTIONAL!
It's not going to get past the Supreme Court and probably most lower courts, period and done with.
Some companies would like to disagree with you on that. I.E. the companies who try to sue over older NES-PS2 era games being uploaded online and made available for no cost or just donations for server fees.
Yes quite.... I've lost quite a few NES cartridges to 'contact rot' as I call it where the contacts after a period of years get this gunk on them, even if you clean the contacts every month.
Umm.... no. The PS2 emulators for computer that I have seen have 'issues' with various games... not rendering shadows properly, having the wrong textures/colors for various things, etc.
The Saturn emulators out there are touchy as well and have issues.
Really, I don't understand why these device makers do not make emulators for their systems after they stop selling their systems. Is it that hard to do? I'd have to say "No" considering that non-company hackers can do it, by and large.
Bingo, mad. Consoles usually only last 10 years, tops with the hardware and even the game carts/discs before they are irreparably damaged due to scratches or other things.
We need to backup those things to a computer system that is more difficult to damage in order to not lose a lot of games to disc rot and console damage.
Personally, I feel it is past time to make console manufacturers release ALL their documents and make their own emulator that works on the most common OS's available at the time (I.E. today Windows 7+, iOS, Android, OSX) so that we do not lose a bunch of cultural advancements.
There already are fully functional emulators for that system.
The systems that have fully functional (can play almost any game) emulators are NES, SNES, Genesis and N64 (with some codicils for the last).
It's harder with the other consoles after those because they are more complex and the console makers put in 'breaker' scripts that are poorly documented except in secret company documents.
Thank you, Techdirt. I have been pointing this out to friends and family for years that most 'pirates' aren't really that (they are doing legal timeshifting because they have cable/satellite TV memberships) or the pirates aren't a lost sale because they don't make enough money to afford the legitimate thing in question.
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"Da law is da law" is the argument that mouth-breathing retards use who have absolutely no critical thinking skills.
And yes, that seven letter r-word is the correct one to use in this case.... it might even be KIND to those people.
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On the others? Yeah, you hit the nail on the head.
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The police are also out of control in that town and need to be given a wakeup call that "We are a land of laws. Those laws apply to you bastards as much as anyone else. DEAL WITH IT!"
My conservative West Virginia relatives who are racist have been horrified by what is going on in Ferguson.
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That is totally wrong, the right to free speech should be sacrosanct as should the right to say things that people do not like hearing.
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I usually automatically think about these things
I.E. don't talk about homosexuality or you will be put in prison. Don't talk about interracial marriage or you will be put in prison.
Analogue to those hits from our past.
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As soon as someone challenges this law
It's not going to get past the Supreme Court and probably most lower courts, period and done with.
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The Saturn emulators out there are touchy as well and have issues.
Really, I don't understand why these device makers do not make emulators for their systems after they stop selling their systems. Is it that hard to do? I'd have to say "No" considering that non-company hackers can do it, by and large.
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We need to backup those things to a computer system that is more difficult to damage in order to not lose a lot of games to disc rot and console damage.
Personally, I feel it is past time to make console manufacturers release ALL their documents and make their own emulator that works on the most common OS's available at the time (I.E. today Windows 7+, iOS, Android, OSX) so that we do not lose a bunch of cultural advancements.
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The systems that have fully functional (can play almost any game) emulators are NES, SNES, Genesis and N64 (with some codicils for the last).
It's harder with the other consoles after those because they are more complex and the console makers put in 'breaker' scripts that are poorly documented except in secret company documents.
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Way to go, Techdirt
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I personally feel that way too many things are patentable today. Complete software and hardware packages, fine.
Piecemeal software and hardware patents, hell no!
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